# codex
## English
### Etymology

From Latin cōdex, variant form of caudex (“tree trunk, book, notebook”); compare caudex (in botany). Doublet of code.

### Pronunciation

* enPR: kōʹdĕks
* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈkəʊdɛks/
* (General American) IPA: /ˈkoʊdɛks/
** Audio (US):(file)
* Hyphenation: co‧dex
* Rhymes: -ɛks
* Homophone: codecs

### Noun

codex (plural codices or codexes)
* An early manuscript book.
* A book bound in the modern manner, by joining pages, as opposed to a rolled scroll.
** 2022 February 15, Margalit Fox, “Look It Up? Only if You’re Dishonest and Ignorant”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:From its inception, the index has provided a window onto the history of the book, for it took the advent of a particular type of book — the codex, a sheaf of pages fastened along one edge — to make an index a practical possibility.
* An official list of medicines and medicinal ingredients.

#### Quotations

* See codexes

#### Derived terms

* cryptex

#### Related terms

* caudex (botany)
* code
* codicology
* codify, codification, codifier
* stemma codicum

#### Translations
### See also

* dispensatory
* formulary
* pharmacopoeia

### References

* ↑ “codex”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

### Anagrams

* coxed

## French
### Etymology

From Latin cōdex.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kɔ.dɛks/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

codex m (plural codex)
* codex (all senses)

### Further reading

* “codex”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Latin
### Etymology

Originally an alternative form of caudex, showing 'rustic' monophthongization of /au̯/ to /oː/.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈkoː.deks/, [ˈkoːd̪ɛks̠]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈko.deks/, [ˈkɔːd̪eks]

### Noun

cōdex m (genitive cōdicis); third declension
* tree trunk; book, notebook
** c. 49 CE, Seneca, De Brevitate Vitae (On the Shortness of Life) (in English), Penguin, →ISBN, page 21:That was Claudius, who for this reason was called Caudex because a structure linking several wooden planks was called in antiquity a caudex. Hence too the Law Tables are called codices, and even today the boats which carry provisions up the Tiber are called by the old-fashioned name codicariae.

#### Declension

Third-declension noun.

#### Derived terms

* Codex Argenteus
* cōdicillus

#### Descendants

Inherited:
* Romansch: cudesch, cudisch, codesch
Early borrowings:
* → Catalan: codi
* → French: code (see there for further descendants)
* → Galician: código
* → Old Italian: codico
* → Portuguese: código
* → Spanish: código
* → Turkish: kütük
Later borrowings:
* → Afrikaans: kodeks
* → Albanian: kodik
* → Bulgarian: кодекс (kodeks)
* → Catalan: còdex
* → Czech: kodex
* → Danish: kodeks
* → Dutch: codex
* → English: codex
* → Esperanto: kodekso
* → Estonian: koodeks
* → Finnish: koodeksi
* → French: codex
* → Galician: códice
* → German: Kodex
* → Hebrew: קודקס
* → Hungarian: kódex
* → Ido: kodexo
* → Italian: codice
* → Lithuanian: kodeksas
* → Norwegian: kodeks
* → Occitan: codèx
* → Polish: kodeks
* → Portuguese: códex, códice
* → Romanian: codex, codice
* → Russian: ко́декс (kódeks)
* → Serbo-Croatian: кодекс
* → Sicilian: cùdici
* → Slovak: kódex
* → Spanish: códice
* → Swedish: kodex
* → Ukrainian: кодекс (kodeks)
* → Venetan: codexe

### References

* “codex”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “codex”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* codex in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co. account-book; ledger: codex or tabulae ratio accepti et expensi
* “codex”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
* codex in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
* “codex”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

## Romanian
### Noun

codex n (plural codexuri)
* Alternative form of codice